The main arguments that the video “Video of the Public Relations Center of FSS of the russian federation on the shelling of russian territory from the outside” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTr4FaYTG2I) is staged: 1. According to the russian website RBC, the incident took place near the village of Shcherbakovo (Neklinovsky district of Rostov region of russia), located more…
From the beginning of 2022, a disinformation campaign with the narrative that Ukraine is terrorizing the population of TOT of Donetsk and Luhansk regions began to be followed in the information space. The enemy tried to create a sustainable impression among the residents of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, residents of the russian federation, as…
The emergency statements by the so-called leaders of the TOT in Donetsk and Luhansk regions turned out to be orchestrated fakes. Video messages about the need to urgently evacuate the population of the pseudo-republics, published by L. Pasichnyk and D. Pushylin, were recorded on February 16. At the same time, the metadata of the video…
Fake information is spread on Facebook that Volodymyr Zelenskyy has asked German Chancellor Olaf Scholz to “send Bundeswehr troops to Ukraine.” The president is credited with the following quote: “We are always glad to have a German soldier on our land.” The original source of the fake news was a post on the website of…
On February 10, which coincided with the start of the russian-Belarusian exercise “Allied Resolve 2022,” russia was supposed to invade Ukraine. Then Bloomberg reported, citing sources among U.S. officials, that russia’s new aggression against Ukraine could begin on February 15-16. Russian media and pro-russian resources in Ukraine actively spread the narrative that the general panic…
Center for Countering Disinformation has revealed that a number of manipulative materials aimed at discrediting Ukraine in the international arena are being spread in the information space. On February 8, Liseron Boudoul, a journalist of the French TV channel TF1, and cameraman Gilles Parrot published a series of original materials on TF1. This is a…
The pro-government media in Belarus and russia have launched an information and psychological special operation to discredit the Ukrainian government and the Armed Forces of Ukraine. They accuse Ukraine of conducting illegal reconnaissance activities using UAVs over the Brest military training ground on January 24. As evidence, they are actively disseminating satellite images of the…
Recently, several publications in the TOT (temporarily occupied territories) have spread a statement by US public figure and musician Chris Jackson Royce. The main messages were to justify the activities of the occupation administrations in the temporarily occupied territories of Donetsk and Luhansk regions, as well as to discredit Ukraine’s activities in the international arena…
Some American media outlets are spreading the message of an alleged misunderstanding between the leaders of the United States and Ukraine. In particular, CNN, citing sources in the United States and Ukraine, and Politico, citing Puck and NatSec Daily, claim that tensions are growing between Zelenskyy and Biden administration officials. This comes amid disagreements over…
The military equipment and units of the russian Armed Forces arriving in Belarus as part of joint military exercises (from February 10 to 20) are gradually being deployed in the southern part of Belarus, i.e., north of the Ukrainian border. This has raised concerns in society about the security situation in Kharkiv. However, Kharkiv Mayor…
The migration crisis began in the spring of 2021, when the self-proclaimed president of the Republic of Belarus, alexander lukashenko, announced that he would no longer detain migrants from the Middle East trying to reach the EU. For its part, the European Union accused lukashenko of provoking the migration crisis — as revenge for the…
On October 28, 2021, the CCD published analytical material on the disinformation campaign in Ukraine about the Covid-19 pandemic. This material analyzed the causes and the beginning of the information-psychological operation, its threats, successes, and main narratives, as well as described the algorithm of actions of the Center in the fight against disinformation. Thus, the…
